culture

  • Good; Expression, and Speech, as Virtue, Human Right, and Crime

    Children are hounded with insults until they suicide. We have a president who posts and reposts obscenities. We see long term public servants reduced to a single insulting sentence of dismissal from leadership at the highest levels in government. We… Continue reading

  • Good, Freedom of Speech in the Context of Democracy’s Morality

    The Third Virtue of the Next Democracy is “Freedom of Speech and Expression“.  The first two virtues, 1. Speaking Truth and 2. Building a Shared Reality partially set the stage and context for Freedom of Speech, for speech, free or not, is nothing without… Continue reading

  • Good, Nurturance and Cultural Suicide.

    The quality and strength of the  nurturance communities a culture builds and sustains around the health of it’s future generations is the predictor of that culture’s future, if there is to be a future.  Our culture is in trouble because… Continue reading

  • Good, Authority and the Idiot’s Power

    When a new administration appoints the cabinet members, state or federal, the prayer is the appointees have the authority (authenticity/expertise) to handle the power (simple leverage) of their new charges. The attribute of authority is a life time disciplined project,… Continue reading

  • Good and Power

    For some people good and power are contradictions and for others, near perfect synonyms. Of course both positions are false which is why we have two different words representing two distinct forces in this universe. The formal definitions of these… Continue reading